24 July 2019: It is seven years since RBC paid around USD1bn to unwind itself from the investor services joint venture with Dexia that it struck in 2005. Business schools could probably put together a very entertaining case study about the RBC Dexia deal, and the many teachable moments that it yielded. For us, however,…
Category: Analysis
I Hear You Knocking – a new breed of administrators is on the march
Most likely, you didn’t know much about Intertrust before Stephanie Miller was appointed CEO in 2018. Perhaps you, like me, thought of the firm as a rather dull provider of corporate services, with a small administration business tacked on. Think again. With the USD330m acquisition of Viteos, Intertrust just joined the major leagues. Intertrust describes…